Olmo made a very worthwhile suggestion on the LINQ forums recently. His suggestion was for a new operator to be added to the C# language to allow us to do away with the following kind of pesky construct:
string x;
if(a != null && a.Address != null && a.Address.FirstLine != null)
x = a.Address.FirstLine;
instead [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 9 so far )After about 17 months and about 32 posts (or 33 if you count this, which I don’t :) I finally got my LINQ postings to the top slot on Google. Thanks to Paul Stovell for letting me know. I’m not sure what made the difference - only a few months ago, I was on page [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The future of search lies in finding ways to bypass search engines altogether. Where information exists locally to make sense of what you’re after it’ll be used to create better searches. Data mining will be used to form a picture of what results go together, and what meanings a user attaches to a word. Alternative, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )I should have brought the code up to date weeks back - but other things got in the way. Still - all the unit tests are in the green. And the code has been minimally converted over to the new .NET 3.5 framework. I say ‘minimally’ because with the introduction of beta 2 there is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )It’s clear that the unofficial policy of both Microsoft and Google is “we don’t believe in the semantic web“. It may not be clear why. The answer is unsurprising when you give it some thought, though: Big Business. Semantic search holds out the hope of users being able to compose meaningful queries and get relevant [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 8 so far )In Beta 2, MS have given ASP.NET web forms and controls the Cider treatment. That is - you are shown the design and markup views side by side just as in the visual designer for WPF. This is called “Split View”, and can be extremely useful - unless your page uses controls that don’t behave [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This could have helped to prevent style-sheet bloat in a few sites I can think of:
So obvious when you think about it. So welcome now that somebody did.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Andrew Cantos raised some interesting philosophical points in reply to my partially tongue in cheek post The Great Domain Model Debate - Solved the other day. As ever, my short reply turned into a blog post and this is it. Andrew’s point was that there is a metaphorical link between objects in a domain model [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I thought it was worth describing this configuration solution, since it was so neat, and easy, and had all of the benefits of text based configuration and strongly typed inline configuration.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )I was wondering the other day whether LINQ could be used with NMock easily. One problem with testing code that has not been written to work with unit tests is that if you test business logic, you often end up making multiple round-trips to the database for each test run. With a very large test [...]
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